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Displaying 30 of about 52 resultsNEW YORK, 25 September 2019 – The UK, Japan and Bhutan announced that they have joined the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, following its launch this week by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Speaking at an event in the sidelines of the high-level meetings in New York, Prakash Javadekar, India’s Minister for Environment and Cl…
GENEVA, 23 May 2013 - The three-day 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, attended by a record 3,500 people and representatives from 172 governments, ended today with a call for "the immediate start of work to develop targets and indicators to monitor the reduction of risk" in the Chair's Summary at the closing plenary.
Global Platform Chai…
Purpose of position
To provide strategic support and guidance to WV Mauritania HEA programs in Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response through seeking funding opportunities with major donors, leading strategic initiatives related to HEA, networking with stakeholders, leading capacity building initiatives for WVM staff and partners, and overseei…
It asks the following questions: What would a potential crisis map look like in a Swiss context? Which actors would be involved and what role could governmental actors play? Taking stock of the usefulness of crisis mapping for mitigating the effects of disaster and speeding up recovery processes, it considers bringing the phenomenon in line with establi…
The 'scan' aims to help policy-makers, practitioners and academics who are short on time get to grips with the range of literature, discourse and social media coverage of the intersection of resilience, climate change, conflict and security. It has assessed over 350 pieces of literature and summarises 146. It intentionally emphasises academic journals,…
Extended from 15 Dec to 31 Dec
Background
Grade / Levels:Technical Specialist/Project Manager/Project Officer
Department/unit: As per relevant qualification and experience the candidates will be assigned to Department of Disaster Risk Assessment and Monitoring.
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), established in 1986, is a regional non-pro…
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Oxfam New Zealand (ONZ) is an independent humanitarian, advocacy and development agency affiliated to Oxfam International.
Oxfam take a rights-based approach to supporting the achievement of human rights and build capabilities that are essential for vulnerable and disadvantaged people so that they can access resources and take advantage of…
Today the international aid organization, CARE, launched a new report highlighting the ten most underreported humanitarian crises of 2018. Climate change plays an increasing and often exacerbating role in humanitarian crises that have been neglected by the global public, such as in Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti.
“Not only are the people who live in th…
Bangkok - Electrical engineers and hazardous waste experts join emergency rosters. Power mapping becomes as important as hazard mapping in emergency prevention and response. #fragilecities shows up as often as #fragilestates in Twitter searches. Humanitarian science fiction? No, welcome to what demographers call the new urban millennium and the challeng…
A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the knowledge and experiences of public and private organisations working toward disaster preparedness…
Geneva (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) - Every one-degree rise in temperature means a 20-fold increase in global conflicts, Wadid Erian, a specialist in arid zones and dry lands, told a meeting on drought resilience this morning.
He and other speakers warned that, with droughts set to become even more frequent and intense, food shor…
GENEVA, 18 August 2015 – UNISDR has added new momentum to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year international plan to curb deaths and economic damage caused by natural and man-made hazards.
The 'Words into Action' process, launched today, will gather experts from around the globe to shape by the end of 2016 a…
GENEVA, 5 March 2012 - The UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, and HE Yoichi Otabe, the Japanese Ambassador to the International Organizations in Geneva, announced today the start of consultations on a new international blueprint for reducing disaster losses in advance of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction…
GENEVA, 5 October 2012 - On 13 October, the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) will be an occasion to pay tribute to millions of girls and women around the world who are on the frontline making their communities and societies resilient to the impacts of disasters and the effects of climate change.
Driven by the theme Women and Girls: the […
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